[PDF] Top 20 Remittances, ICT and Doing Business in Sub Saharan Africa

... existing business cycles or create new ...because ICT may go beyond facilitating the transaction of ...Accordingly ICT can also facilitate the sharing of information to reduce information asymmetry ... See full document

... general doing of business environment, their influence on specific entrepreneurship variables is largely contingent on market expansion and ...of doing business 3 ...the doing of ... See full document

... We adopt six control variables in order to account for omitted variable bias, namely: development assistance, private domestic credit, remittances, foreign direct investment (FDI), GDP per capita growth and ... See full document

... ‘social business’ would be large enough to be replicated with branches across the important towns and villages to rope in the large number of poor self- employed persons to become employees seems ...a ... See full document

... the sub- region, various macroeconomic policy reform programmes were adopted and implemented by SSA countries since political independence in the ...the sub- region, as SSA has been identified as the region ... See full document

... of ICT applications on market data. (2) ICT improves the livelihood of the population in rural areas by breaking barriers to production in agriculture and reducing demand/supply related limitations (see ... See full document

... for ICT penetration in Africa (see Penard et ...to Africa, high-end markets (or markets in developed countries) have reached saturation points in internet and mobile phone penetrations whereas; ... See full document

... for Sub Saharan Africa unless serious interventions are ...Most Sub-Saharan African countries performed better on goals 11, 12 and ...most sub-Saharan countries face is ... See full document

... While getting water to people in sub-Saharan Africa may be the most important phase, it will not be enough on its own to combat starvation. To do just that, Rachel Zedeck has in one promising effort ... See full document

... There are many patients in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) suffering from conditions that may benefit from total joint replacement (TJR). However, these countries com- monly do not have adequate resources to ... See full document

... since doing so reduces the monitoring costs for ...in sub–Saharan Africa, pedestrian load carrying is particularly crucial (Porter 2008; Porter, Blaufuss and Acheampong, 2011 in ...of ... See full document

... In recent years African countries have fared well relative to their performance history. Continent-wide only the HIV/AIDS problem represents a unique and present danger. Individually, even traditional laggards, ... See full document

... in sub- Saharan Africa are among many developing and poorer countries that are yet to evolve national policies that could help promote CSR in the region (KPMG, 2011; Visser and Tolhurst, 2010; ... See full document

... of ICT by the poorest ...of ICT network should be sported by SSA government and their development finance ...in ICT infrastructure is more pronounced in poor countries like those in the SSA ... See full document

... these were reported as ASC-US, 2% as ASC-H, 32% as LGSIL, 4% as HGSIL and 2% as cervical cancer. Keskin et al., (2011), examined 18303 pap smears and detected abnormal cytology in 1.35% of the cases. In the current ... See full document

... Some countries have well-established education systems which provide near universal coverage of the primary school- age populations and are increasingly doing so at the secondary level. Their teaching forces meet ... See full document

... In reference with the framework of SVAR model in Davis (2014), this study utilizes three key variables, namely the capital flows (Kflows), real GDP growth rate (GR) and inflation rate (INFL). The selection of the last ... See full document

... disadvantaged ICT adoption in this group of ...and ICT adoption similarly ...in Africa, the rich prefer quality to quantity of children, and therefore have fewer kids than the poor (Asongu, ...in ... See full document

... empowering the economically-disadvantaged and the vulnerable group to reduce poverty and income inequality. For example, because higher human capital accumulation by way of improved secondary school enrolment has ... See full document

... an economy characterized by large-scale reductions in environmental degradation. So, what is the way forward for Eswatini policymakers? Firstly, fiscal authorities need to intervene in the market for GHG emissions and ... See full document